True, but I wouldn't go with Wix, Square Space, or the other tools. You can rent a VPS for cheap, I think the cheapest one I have is ~$5 / month, with 2 V-Cores, and 4 GB of memory, that is plenty for your website to run on. It really does begin at home, and we should move back to the 80s and early 90s where if you want it, host it, run it, build it, and have fun.

How could you start a new global network, that isn't controlled, but, also allows large enough subnetworks to evolve to warrant using it? The idea of a decentralized network in theory works, but, if your grandma or mother can't log in to a platform to see pictures of her grandkids, why would they use it? The internet succeeded because it's tightly controlled, and ran by several major players, which makes it easy to do a few things, even if they're negative overall.

Sure, you can run your LAMP stack, and you can host your blog, websites, idea, writings, and be your own femto town-square, but the chance of that ever taking off and becoming the next Facebook, is essentially 0%. Let's assume it becomes the next Facebook, you can't control it, Facebook is a dumpster fire (along with X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, etc...) because at massive scale, control breaks down. You can scale for a bit with control, but you will hit a point where that platform is now is functionally uncontrollable, using reasonable moderation, and that's where we are now.

Even if we start a new global network, it will fall into the same problem over time, and I don't see how anyone can reasonably fix that, or control it.

hahaha that's hilarious, they would. Touchpad macro devices are spectacular, I don't use them, I don't need them, but I absolutely see the value in them.

My XPS has a touch screen, one of the first things I did was to turn it off in the UEFI. They didn't sell a non-touch version of this notebook in the higher configuration. I can agree with your points :).

Fair enough

That's legit cool :)

Fair enough, it's just not for me. When I want a touch screen I have a tablet for a larger screen, or my phone for a smaller screen.

I get that argument, which is why I have a tablet when I need a larger screen. I don't use my tablet very frequently, I just checked, this week I've used it for 1-minute, and that was to check how long I've used it this week. It's great when I require a large touch screen for something, but that happens so infrequently that it really re-enforces my belief I don't need one. My current XPS has a touch screen, I turned off the touch screen setting, in the UEFI the day I got it, and have never thought about turning it back on.

That idiotic notebook with two screens, my boss at the time, ~10 years ago, used to use the touch screen virtual keyboard. I don't get it, I will never get it, it was horrible to type on. There was no feedback, and it was like taping your fingers on glass, that was slippery. There was a Blackberry back in the day, I think the “Storm” that had feedback when you typed using its virtual keyboard, and I think that was my favourite implementation of a touch screen, mainly because of the feedback.

I'm picky when it comes to keyboards. My favourite keyboard of all time was an old Cherry MxGreen keyboard, that had heavy calibrated switches, the kind where almost every mm is accounted for. I like hearing the click, feeling the tactile response, and knowing when my key is actuated. I know that's not for everyone, and it can bother people in an office, but there is something about a great keyboard that really allows me to feel the input, and I know that sounds weird.

I agree :)

This is not a remark about what editor is best, or a flame war statement. I have never been able to figure out EMACS, and I honestly don't see the draw, or what other people see in it. I know people who use it, who can basically do their entire workday in it, but I can't understand the draw. It's powerful, its feature set approaches the insane, and just saying EMACS, can make you think of Unix or Linux, but, I don't get it.

I can't think of a single time I have ever wanted a touch screen on a notebook, or desktop computer. There is a use for touch devices, like drawing tablets, pen inputs, and the like, but who wants to touch their screen? Does anyone actually have a use case for a touch screen, that can't be better served with a device that prevents it?

I'm sure there are good uses for them, I just can't think of one. There was an idiotic notebook that had two screens, and one was a touch screen, so you could use a virtual keyboard, that thing SUCKED! One of my old bosses loved it, and bought a bunch of them, but you had to plug a keyboard in to have any chance of using it.

I'm not talking about tablets, or phones, or other IoT style devices where a touch screen is very sensible.

If Scope is pointing out your documentation is lacking, how does that impact AI Agents? The vast majority of documentation isn't worth the resource used to store it, and Microsoft is a great example. How much of their documentation, if being overly generous, is poor? Personally, I feel that documentation needs to be considered as important as the product being developed. If you're not putting ~50% of your efforts into documentation quality, you're probably not putting enough effort into it. Documentation is an art form, and when done well, it's a thing of beauty, but if done to the normal standard, is useless. If you need an AI tool to tell you the documentation is crap, you didn't need the AI tool. Frankly, you weren't ready for the tool, you're so far off from what I would consider the start block, just give up.

Absolutely, and it's a hard isolation, which is one of the reasons I like QubesOS.

100%, I agree with you.

Yep, and as a person in IT, I don't run phising tests. Why would I want my users to distrust emails from me? One of the ways they could have handled this would be to tell the user to connect to a validated and verified employee portal, and access the form for the ring. That's precisely how they should have handled it, and if it were me, I would have deleted the email, or, messaged IT and told them to validate it.